Metallic awning.



No. 722,566. PATBNTED MAR. 10, 1903..

E. GORNITIUS. METALLIC AWNING.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 2. 1902.

H0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES PATENT ERNST CORNITIUS, OF WACO, TEXAS.

METALLIC AWNING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters ,Patent No. 722,566, dated March 10, 1903. Application filed August 2, 1902. Serial No. 118,186. (No model.)

as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in' metallic awnings; and it consists of certain novel features, which will be hereinafter described aud claimed.

Reference is bad to the accompanying drawings, in which the samev parts are indicated by the same letters throughout the several views.

Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a metallic awning constructed according to my invention, the door or window frame being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a front view of the awning shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a side view of a modified form of the awning.

Referring now to Figs. 1 and 2, A repre-. sents a door or window frame to which two brackets B are secured, in which brackets toggle-bars O and D are pivoted. The toggle-bar C is attached, as at a, to the door or window frame and does not move; but the toggle-bar D has pivoted thereto the longer toggle-bar E, which is bisected by the toggle-bar F, and both are pivoted together. This togglebar F is pivoted at its inner end to the lower end of the toggle-bar O and at its outer end to the toggle-bar I. The short toggle-bar G is pivoted at one end to the bracket B, fast to the door or window frame, and is pivoted at the other end to the ends of the togglebars E and H.' To prevent the toggle-frame thus formed from hanging down too far, I provide straps K and M, which are pivoted at and m, respectively, and are provided the one with a stud is engaging in a slot m in the other. When this stud reaches the end of its slot, the toggle-bar H can drop no farther, and thus these straps serve to automatically limit the lowest position to which the awning may be dropped.

On top of the toggle-bars D, F, and H, I secure plates P, P, and P, the outer ends of which slope outward and downward, as indicated at 10. The inner ends of the plates P and P are inclined upward, as indicated at p, and thus these inclined edges 19 and 12 give between them a zigzag passage, which permits the passage of air backward and forward through the awning, but would not permit rain to pass through except in a driving storm.

I have shown the bars D, F, and H provided with small lugs (Z, and h to strengthen the same where theawning-plates are riveted thereto. These lugs may be omitted, if desired. v.

Q represents a cord or rope which passes over the pulley R, by means of which rope the awning may be pulled up, as indicated in dotted lines, or lowered to the position shown in full lines, as may be desired.

' The flaps p of the plates P and. P may be cut away, as shown atp to prevent said flaps from abrading said cord. Notohes P may be provided to present an artistic effect. In the form of device shown in Fig. 3 the awning'is made of a number of metallic frames or bows all pivoted about the same center T and each bow struck with a lesser radius than the outer bow. Thus the bow T, having the greatest radius, is fast to the bracket B and carries a stud t, projecting into the slot 25 in the bow T. Thelatter bow carries a similar stud t, projecting into a similar slot t in the bow T and similarly with the bow T The cord Q is fast to the bow T and is rove over the pulley B. By pulling up on this cord the several bows swing up into the closed position, as will be obvious.

The tops of the bows T and T must clear the stud t of the bows T and T, respectively, and thus an air-space will be left between adjacent bows, which will enable the passage therethrough of air, but at the same time will. prevent the ingress of rain, except a driving rain, in which case the awning would probably be pulled up.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. A metallic awning, comprising a plurality of toggle-bars pivoted together and connected to the house, awning-plates carried by said toggle-bars, straps provided with a stud edges, straps provided with a stud and a slot, respectively, connected to the lower 15 member of the toggle-frame and preventing the same from opening downward too far, and a cord connected to said toggle-bars and adapted to raise said awning or lower same, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ERNST GORNITIUS.

Witnesses:.

EDWIN W. HANDER, M. J. GAVIN. 

